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Sunday, April 06, 2014

Top 20 Ways that Fire Ants Are Better than Republicans

You might not be able to relate if you've never lived out west, but I found the following to be very apt! It's from OutSmart, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Here are a few examples of how fire ants are better than repugs:

*Most fire ants do not have their own radio talk show.

*Fire ants are happy even if they haven’t starved all the other ants and taken their homes.

*Fire ants don’t seem to care what I do with my uterus.

*Fire-ant bites go away after a few weeks.

*Fire ants haven’t produced any great thinkers either, but you don’t notice because they can’t write or talk.

More ways here...
(Bonus Question: What's the one way repugs are exactly like fire ants?)

“In the councils of government we must guard against
the acquisition of power, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic processes.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
from his final address to the nation
January 17, 1961

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson